Is wayland preferred over X11 in CachyOS?

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I have a genuine question.

Is wayland preferred over X11 in CachyOS? There have been instances that indicate the same.

Wayland seems to be popular among the forum members. I want to know the choice from the developers of this distro who have definitely preferred one over the other (Wayland vs X11) based on the merit of the technologies.

The motivation for my question is to align myself with the paradigm of the developers of the distro. I have no special love for either wayland or X11. I consider them as a tool to get the work done. I believe when in Rome, be a Roman. Hence, after knowing the answer here, I will stick to the CachyOS developers’ preferred display technology as and when I use CachyOS.

  • In the latest install ISO, in X11 the settings for touchpad is not being shown in KDE settings, but in wayland it is.

  • The team proactively changed the SDDM to start with Wayland before the rest of the Arch ecosystem.

Correct me if I am wrong, general software support for wayland lags behind X11 till date.

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I’m not a developer, but I’ll take a swing at it.
X11 is a million years old (umm yeah, I’m older), Wayland is the newer kid on the block (10 or 15 years). Wayland is the display standard going forward today for Linux. Much of the changes you refer to are coming from Arch itself, and does not necessarily reflect the Cachy Team’s preferences. However, they are (in effect) being swept along on the incoming tide.

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As of today, my touchpad is recognized in the EndeavourOS in X11 as well as in wayland, and I can see touchpad settings in KDE settings. Hence, Arch is not to be blamed.
Also, I am an old timer too, from the ages when you had to input the refresh frequency of your CRT monitor in the installer program that used to come in the black colored Red Hat CDs (2001).

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We prefer Wayland yeah. X11 is not worked on anymore and wayland has been getting better and better each day.

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Sorry to recall this post but I just want to share this:
some people like professional artists and users that handle external devices like digital pens seems to still prefer X11 over Wayland due to available support.

You can check this picture for example:

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and the entire post here:

My 2 cents think: considering there still is this necessity I would prefer to still have the possibility to chose X11 or Wayland, because the migration of all those functionalities from X11 to Wayland are ongoing and they’ll require sometime to be completed.